Election Day has come and gone in the U.S. — though it will likely linger in the memory for quite some time — but that doesn't mean that all the electing there is to do has been done. No, another election is upon us: the December 2008 election for the Fedora Project has begun!
If you don't care much about whitespace bash is great:
it normally turns multiple whitespace characters into one
and it breaks things into words based on white space.
If on the other hand you'd like to preserve whitespace
bash can be a bit difficult at times.
A trick which often helps is using a combination of bash's
eval and set commands.
Back in August 2008, at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, the big buzzword was "Cloud Computing". It's a neat concept, but after a week of hearing folks talk about "in the cloud", I was about at the end of my rope.
The Federal Communications Commission — the government agency that generally concerns itself with policing wardrobe malfunctions and the like — took an enormous step into the 21st Century yesterday as its five commissioners voted unanimously to open previously restricted areas of the wireless spectrum for public use.
One of the hottest areas of Linux development these days is in mobile Linux — it seems everyone has their hand somewhere in the Linux-on-cellphones pie. Two of the big players in the field — Google and Motorola — kicked their involvement up a notch yesterday by becoming official members of the GNOME Advisory Board.
If you try to unmount a partition and get a message like this:
# umount /media/usbdisk/
umount: /media/usbdisk: device is busy
use the lsof command to find out what programs are using what files:
It's been nearly a month since the strains of the 175th Oktoberfest died down, but the reasons to celebrate live on. Behind the scenes at the Auswärtiges Amt (Foreign Office), the diplomats are toasting freedom — not with beer, but Open Source software.
Once upon a time, one computer was all you needed. All of your
documents lived on that computer, or a stack of floppies or
CD-Roms nearby, and nowhere else. Those days are gone, much like
the one-car, one-TV, and one-iPod days.
The hot story-of-the-week this week is, of course, the ninth release of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, officially designated Ubuntu 8.10 but far more recognizable by its colorful code-name, Intrepid Ibex. The release comes with much more than just a flashy name, though.
